{"id":2594,"date":"2013-04-01T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/activistfaith\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2013-04-01T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:57:53","slug":"together-our-stories-change-lives-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/activistfaith\/2013\/04\/together-our-stories-change-lives-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Together Our Stories Change Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special post from Dan King:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/QpTQyMp70O\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bibledude.net\/team-strategy-help-one-now-haiti-bloggers.jpg\" alt=\"legacy project, help one now, bloggers, haiti\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helponenow.org\/haiti-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Help One Now Haiti Bloggers<\/a> working on their legacy strategy.<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>\n<h3>You&#8217;re reading\u00a0about the #Help1Haiti Bloggers Trip.\u00a0Read more:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"here we go... @helponenow haiti bloggers 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/bibledude.net\/helponenow-haiti-bloggers-2012\/\">here we go&#8230; @helponenow haiti bloggers 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"three reasons to follow the @helponenow haiti bloggers\" href=\"http:\/\/bibledude.net\/haiti-bloggers\/\">three reasons to follow the @helponenow haiti bloggers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"sometimes it's messy work\" href=\"http:\/\/bibledude.net\/messy-work\/\">sometimes it&#8217;s messy work<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"on the importance of coming back\" href=\"http:\/\/bibledude.net\/commitment\/\">on the importance of coming back<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"in which God is up to something\" href=\"http:\/\/bibledude.net\/help-one-now-legacy-project\/\">in which God is up to something<\/a><\/li>\n<li>together, our stories change things: #powerofwe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I\u2019ve really been having a tough time holding it together over the past week. Even as I sit here a few days after my return home, drinking my <a href=\"http:\/\/rebo.ht\/The%20Technics.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Rebo (Haitian Coffee)<\/a>, my eyes fill with tears as I think about the work I\u2019ve done. I\u00a0saw first-hand how stories have changed other people\u2019s lives, and I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ll ever be the same either.<\/p>\n<p>You see, all of last week I was <a title=\"Help One Now Bloggers: Haiti 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.helponenow.org\/haiti-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">in Haiti with a team of storytellers<\/a>. This trip has been somewhat of a dream that\u2019s been brewing since February. I was tagging along as a writer\u00a0with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helponenow.org\" target=\"_blank\">Help One Now<\/a> on one of their usual mission trips. I remember telling <a title=\"Staff Info - Help One Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.helponenow.org\/about\/our-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Marlow<\/a> that I felt overwhelmed with sheer magnitude of the stories that needed to be told. We needed to somehow get more storytellers on a trip together\u00a0if we wanted to do them any justice.<\/p>\n<p>The result was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helponenow.org\/haiti-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Help One Now Bloggers trip to Haiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think I expected some great stories to come out of this trip, but dear Lord\u2026 I sat and wept each night as I read the writers\u2019 posts coming through. And yes, sometimes it was even the body-shaking, full-on, ugly cry.<\/p>\n<p>Just to give you a frame of reference, here are just a few of my personal favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jennieallen.com\/blog\/when-people-familiar\/\" target=\"_blank\">When People Feel Familiar<\/a> by Jennie Allen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahbessey.com\/in-which-i-meet-a-mountain-mover\/\" target=\"_blank\">In which I meet a mountain mover<\/a> by Sarah Bessy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marydemuth.com\/2012\/10\/dear-mary-a-letter-from-haiti\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Mary: A Letter From Haiti<\/a> by Mary DeMuth<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jenhatmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/mopping-haiti\" target=\"_blank\">Mopping Haiti<\/a> by Jen Hatmaker<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rageagainsttheminivan.com\/2012\/10\/the-lack-of-family-is-greatest-form-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">the lack of a family is the greatest form of poverty<\/a> by Kristen Howerton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehighcalling.org\/leadership\/can-do\" target=\"_blank\">My View From Haiti: Can. Do.<\/a> by Deidra Riggs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scribingthejourney.com\/and-then-we-danced-haiti-day-3\" target=\"_blank\">and then we danced<\/a> by Duane Scott<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together these stories paint a beautiful picture of life in the poorest nation in the world. They bring us into the lives of the most resilient people whom I\u2019ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. They paint a picture of what redemption and love and hope looks like. These stories change things.<\/p>\n<p>But one thing I discovered unexpectedly on this trip is how deeply these stories changed <em>us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Just the other day I talked about how <a title=\"in which God is up to something\" href=\"http:\/\/bibledude.net\/help-one-now-legacy-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">God changed our plans<\/a> for our last day. The beautiful thing about it is that it gave us the opportunity to dream <em>even bigger<\/em>, beyond our short time together in Haiti. We decided to leave our mark on the place that left a visible mark on us. So together we\u2019re planning how we\u2019re going to leave our legacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/QpYn8Ep74h\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bibledude.net\/fliming-help-one-now-haiti-bloggers.jpg\" alt=\"help one now, haiti, bloggers, legacy project\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helponenow.org\/haiti-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Help One Now Haiti Bloggers<\/a> on the film set for our \u201clegacy project.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If this thing is going to work, it has to be more then just one of us on board with the vision. It\u2019ll take all of us. That\u2019s what I like about this dream\u2026 that it\u2019s bigger than any one (or few) of us. In fact, it\u2019s so big that we\u2019ll need you too!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re in the process of of pulling together our launch for this B.H.A. (big, hairy, audacious) project as we speak, and I promise that you\u2019ll hear more <em>very<\/em> soon. And we\u2019re going to ask you to dream with us. We\u2019re asking to dream with Haiti for a brighter future. We\u2019re going to invite you into the story along with us.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because we believe in the power of <em>we<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special post from Dan King: The Help One Now Haiti Bloggers working on their legacy strategy. 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